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by temporarara 873 days ago
"We demand an expansion on a large scale of old age welfare." That's one Nazi Party idea according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Program). I would say you are not that intelligent if you oppose that just because "Nazism bad". If you oppose racism it's pretty clear that you don't in general support Nazism. But opposing Nazism doesn't mean that you even oppose racism, maybe your smart friends just don't like that particular German codified version of racism, it's pretty pointless statement without some analysis. Just like US was back then against Nazism and ultimately even went to war with them while simultaneously being openly racist.

Granted, many of the Nazi ideas revolve pretty obsessively around the concept of race, but looks like at least in one case they were even explicitly not racists: "We demand struggle without consideration against those whose activity is injurious to the general interest. Common national criminals, usurers, profiteers and so forth are to be punished with death, without consideration of confession or race." And that's another idea I basically fully agree with. IMO death penalty should be reserved only for the most serious cases, but society needs to be extremely harsh to career criminals and their ilk, they laugh at lenient punishments.